going into church alive and coming out dead

I drew this cartoon and posted it first in December of 2006! Wow. I’ve been cartooning for a while now. At that time I was a pastor of a local church. I wasn’t into that whole “dead believer” kind of mentality… you know… God’s frozen chosen and so on. I was more interested in not killing people with bad theology. Or manipulation. Or spiritual abuse.

You see, I think this happens a lot: people go to church hoping to hear some good news but leave spiritually murdered.

There is good news to be heard. I’m sure there are places where you can come out even more alive than when you went in. I would love to see these places increase. Wouldn’t you?

*** I would like to welcome you to join The Lasting Supper where we endeavor to keep the news good.

David Hayward runs the blog nakedpastor as a graffiti artist on the walls of religion where he critiques religion… specifically Christianity and the church. He also runs the online community The Lasting Supper where people can help themselves discover, explore and live in spiritual freedom.

“I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.” ~Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

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Indeed brother!

Calvinists defending eternal torment as necessary for God’s sovereign glory sound like worshipers of the devil.